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Tax collectors' report of no payments received at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 11365Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)8. Aug. 152

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A report by Apynchis and his fellow collectors of money taxes at Soknopaiou Nesos to Hierax, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. They declare that no tax payments were received from the 11th to the 15th of Mesore in the 15th year. It dates to AD 152.

In English machine translation

To Hierax, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from Apynchis and associates, collectors of money taxes of Soknopaiou Nesos. We declare that nothing has been paid to us during the days from the 11th to the 15th of the month Mesore of the present 15th year […]

Such five-day 'nil returns' were routinely submitted by village tax collectors to the strategos. The 15th year is that of Antoninus Pius.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.grenf.2.62a

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. Aug. 152 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

Ἱέρακι στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Ἀπύγχεωςκαὶ μετόχων πρακτόρων ἀργυρικῶν Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου. δηλοῦμεν μηδὲν διαγεγράφθαι ἡμῖν τῶν ἀπὸ ια ἕως ιε τοῦ Μεσορὴ μηνὸς τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιε ἔτους [… ? lines lost …]